Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: [RFC] handle paths in a saner way

[Stefan Schmiedl]

Paolo Bonzini (09.02. 09:51):

> 
> >The thing is, XML is not that easy to parse, and, in fact, packages.xml
> >is not parsed properly - the parsing is done line by line, and can't
> 
> I can only agree, but this is a somewhat separate issue.
> 
> For 2.4 I may add a smallish and more compliant XML/SAX parser.  Do you 
> have any alternatives?

how about using the "simple" ini-file known on windoze?

[packagename]
attr=value
attr=value
attr=value
attr=value

Easy and quick to parse for non-nested structures as you have
in packages.xml

s.